- Malaysian police have detained 51 men in a series of raids on a Kuala Lumpur hotel in connection with what was described as a drug-fuelled "gay party".
- The men, aged between 21 and 52, included 28 foreigners, and authorities said they seized illicit drugs such as MDMA, ecstasy, and ketamine.
- One man suspected of being at the party was found unconscious in the hotel lobby and later pronounced dead at Kuala Lumpur Hospital.
- Homosexuality is criminalised in Muslim-majority Malaysia, where sodomy is a crime and sharia laws ban same-sex acts.
- Of those detained, 36 tested positive for drugs, narcotics department director Hussein Omar Khan said.
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